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Ensemble - Deutsche Oper Berlin

Giulio Cilona

Giulio Cilona

Der Dirigent Giulio Cilona (USA/Belgien) ist seit der Spielzeit 2020/21 als 2. Kapellmeister an der Staatsoper Hannover tätig, wo er bereits über 90 Aufführungen dirigierte. Zu seinen jüngsten Aufgaben zählen die musikalische Leitung der Neuproduktionen LE NOZZE DI FIGARO und DIE ZIRKUSPRINZESSIN sowie zahlreiche Wiederaufnahmen und Nachdirigate u. a. LA BOHÈME, DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, COSÌ FAN TUTTE, L’ELISIR D’AMORE, DER VAMPYR, HÄNSEL UND GRETEL, L’ORFEO und die deutsche Erstaufführung von Leonard Evers‘ HUMANOID.

Seit 2021 ist er Stipendiat des Dirigentenforums des Deutsches Musikrates.

Im August 2022 wurde er mit dem 2. Preis beim International Opera Conducting Competition in der Opera Royal de Wallonie-Liège (Belgien) ausgezeichnet. In der Spielzeit 2022/23 übernimmt er dort die musikalische Leitung von Offenbachs L’ÎLE DE TULIPATAN, und ist u. a. mit dem Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, am Staatstheater Mainz mit den Neuproduktionen MISS DONNITSHORNE’S MAGGOT und EIGHT SONGS FOR A MAD KING, am Teatro Sociale di Rovigo und Teatro Aligheri di Ravenna (Neuproduktion IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA) und beim Buxton International Festival (LA DONNA DEL LAGO) als Gast zu erleben.

Mit der Saison 23/24 wechselt er als Kapellmeister und Assistent von Generalmusikdirektor Sir Donald Runnicles an die Deutsche Oper Berlin. Weitere Gast-Engagements während der Spielzeit 23/24 führen ihn u. a. ans Teatro Verdi di Trieste und an die Opera National de Lorraine-Nancy.

Giulio Cilona schloss sein Studium im Fach Orchesterdirigieren an der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg bei Bruno Weil ab und wurde 2019 von der Stiftung Mozarteum mit der Bernhard-Paumgartner-Medaille der Stiftung Mozarteum ausgezeichnet. Bereits während seines Studiums arbeitete Giulio Cilona als Assistent und Korrepetitor für die Salzburger Oster- und Sommerfestspiele in Zusammenarbeit mit der Dresdner Semperoper und als Assistent des Generalmusikdirektors am Salzburger Landestheater. Er übernahm auch zahlreiche Opernaufführungen am Mozarteum wie ALCINA, LA FINTA SEMPLICE, HOFFMANNS ERZÄHLUNGEN sowie Philippe Boesmans’ REIGEN mit dem Österreichischen Ensemble für Neue Musik.

Als Pianist erhielt er zahlreiche Preise bei renommierten internationalen Klavierwettbewerben und trat mit verschiedenen Orchestern auf. Als Komponist leitete er im Alter von 18 Jahren die Uraufführung seines Concertino für Klavier und Orchester und dirigierte bereits mehrmals eigene Werke.

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Advents-Verlosung: Das 22. Fensterchen

On 7 March 2025, the first part of Tobias Kratzer's Strauss trilogy, ARABELLA, celebrates its revival as part of our ‘Richard Strauss in March’ weeks, with Jennifer Davis as Arabella , Heidi Stober as Zdenka/Zdenko, Thomas Johannes Mayer as Mandryka, Daniel O'Hearn as Matteo and, as in the premiere series, Doris Soffel and Albert Pesendorfer as the Waldner couple. Today we are giving away our DVD, which will not be available in shops until 14 February 2025. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to NAXOS for giving us the very special opportunity to put ARABELLA in our lottery pot for you almost eight weeks before the official sales launch.

In today's Advent Calendar window, we are giving away two DVDs of ARABELLA – a lyrical comedy in three acts by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. If you would like to win one of the two DVDs, please write an e-mail with the subject ‘The 22nd window’ to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de.

Vienna, circa 1860. The financially strapped Count Waldner is lodging with his family in a Viennese hotel. His only path to solvency is for him to secure an advantageous marriage for one of his two daughters – and the family can only afford to present Arabella, the eldest, in the upper circles of society. To conceal the family’s indigence, the parents have raised Zdenka as a boy, dressing her accordingly. Arabella is not short of suitors but has resolved to wait for ‘Mr Right’. When Mandryka, an aristocrat from a distant region, arrives, he and Arabella are instantly smitten. Arabella only asks to be able to bid farewell to her friends and suitors at the Fasching ball that evening. At the ball, Arabella says goodbye to her admirers. There is also the young officer Matteo, with whom Zdenka is secretly in love and with whom she has formed a friendship under the guise of her disguise as a boy. Matteo, however, desires Arabella and is distraught when he realises the hopelessness of his love. Zdenka devises a plan: she fakes a letter from Arabella in which she promises Matteo a night of love together. But instead she wants to wait for him herself in the darkness of the hotel room. Mandryka learns of Arabella's alleged infidelity and goes to the hotel with the ball guests to surprise Arabella in flagrante delicto. Arabella, innocent of this, is initially shocked and saddened by Mandryka’s suspicions but forgives him when the mix-up is revealed for what it is. The two agree to marry, as do Zdenka and Matteo.

Richard Strauss’s orchestral richness and opulence coupled with the period Viennese setting of the work led to ARABELLA being falsely pigeonholed as a light-hearted comedy of errors from its 1933 premiere onwards. In the estimation of Tobias Kratzer, however, who triumphed at the Deutsche Oper with his production of Alexander von Zemlinsky’s THE DWARF, this final collaboration between Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal marks a collision of two world views: the traditional roles of men and women on the one hand – as expressed in Arabella’s famous solo “Und du sollst mein Gebieter sein” – and a modern idea of social interaction on the other – as illustrated by Zdenka with her questioning of gender-based identities. Here, Kratzer turns the spotlight on this disunity between the various character portrayals in ARABELLA and explores these role-specific tensions on a continuum stretching from 19th-century Vienna to the present day. In the category of stage design, Manuel Braun, Jonas Dahl and Rainer Sellmaier were honoured with the renowned German Theatre Award DER FAUST 2023 for this production.

In this recording, under the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles, you will experience Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Sara Jakubiak, Elena Tsallagova, Russell Braun, Robert Watson, Thomas Blondelle, Kyle Miller, Tyler Zimmerman, Hye-Young Moon, Lexi Hutton, Jörg Schörner and others, as well as the chorus and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The performances on 18 and 23 March 2023 were recorded by rbb Kultur and Naxos for this DVD.

We would like to thank the Naxos label for the great collaboration over the past few years, which documents recordings of DER ZWERG, DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, DER SCHATZGRÄBER, DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG and ANTIKRIST. Richard Strauss' ARABELLA and INTERMEZZO will be released in the course of 2025.



Closing date: 22 December 2024. The winners will be informed by email on 23 December 2024. The DVDs will then be sent by post. There is no right of appeal.